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regarded as private dwellings, which might fairly be classed as tenement
houses, seeing that they contain more than one family. To meet the
continued and rapid growth of the parish, especially in the Kilburn and
West End Wards, I advised the appointment of an additional Inspector
for this district. Accordingly your Vestry appointed Mr. Frederick
H. Hudson on March 18th, 1897, and to him has been allocated the
West End Ward. We have now been enabled to divide the parish into
four districts, to each of which a divisional inspector is allotted, so that,
for the future, we ought to have no difficulty in carrying out a
systematic and periodical inspection of all the Wards.
The Cowshed and Slaughter-houses were inspected by the Public
Health Committee on October 5th. No objection was raised to the
renewal of the various licences.
Bakehouses.—These now number 39, and are regularly inspected.
Beyond orders for cleansing and white-washing being occasionally
necessary, it may be said that the sanitary condition of these premises
is satisfactory.
Inquests.—The number of inquests held was 69, that being an
increase of 17 on the previous year, and 37 of these were deaths caused
by violence. There were five deaths from fractures and contusions
caused by falls and being run over, four from burns and scalds, and six
infants perished from suffocation in bed or neglect at birth. A cook,
aged 55, and housemaid, aged 15, were poisoned by an escape of coal
gas from a burner, the tap of which had not been properly turned off.
A male, aged 36, died from electric shock.
There were seven cases of suicide, three of these caused death by
drowning, one by poisoning by oxalic acid, one by wound in throat, and
two by fracture of the skull from bullet wounds.
Mortuary.—The total number of bodies received during the year
was 71, and of these 47 were admitted by order of the Coroner; 47
post mortem examinations were made; 16 bodies were brought in by
the police, 4 by order of medical men, and 4 by the request of
friends.